Danny the Champion of the World

Danny the Champion of the World Literary Elements

Genre

Children's novel; adventure.

Setting and Context

The story is set in an unnamed rural English town in the 1970s.

Narrator and Point of View

The narrator is Danny; the point of view stays with him.

Tone and Mood

The tone is light-hearted and nostalgic; the mood is comedic and exciting.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Danny is the protagonist, Mr. Hazell is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict is that Danny and his father must risk their safety if they want to disrupt Mr. Hazell's pheasant-shooting party.

Climax

The story reaches its climax when Mr. Hazell discovers that his pheasants have been somehow lured to the filling station and he is powerless to do anything about it.

Foreshadowing

Understatement

Allusions

Imagery

Paradox

Parallelism

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Personification

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